<p>Thank you, IDMom06, for the link to the UT-Dallas paper. I will read it this evening. I take it you would like to see UT-Austin (and possibly others) move to what you call holistic admissions. By that, do you mean reviewing each applicant on a case-by-case basis? Do you favor any automatic admits? </p>
<p>As I understand it, UT-Austin reinstituted race-based admissions for 2005-2006 applicants (link here: <a href="http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/hrofr/focus/topten79-7.pdf)%5B/url%5D">www.capitol.state.tx.us/hrofr/focus/topten79-7.pdf)</a>, but that Texas A&M did not. Is it possible that some of the anomalies you are seeing in this year's admissions is due to that?</p>